WESLACO — The blazing heat radiating off the asphalt didn’t keep Weslaco’s mayoral candidates Buddy de la Rosa and Miguel Wise from campaigning outside City Hall on Saturday.
Wise handily won the runoff election, nabbing 68.49 percent of the…
EDINBURG — The wife of former Hidalgo County Judge J.D. Salinas died this weekend without apparent warning, a family member said late Saturday.
Known for being energetic and having a youthful spirit, Janie Cuellar Salinas was working out in her…
MISSION — A teen is being held in the Hidalgo County Jail on suspicion of causing a fatal rollover crash on Inspiration Road near Mile 9 1/2 just north of Mission.
Baldemar Muñoz, 18, of Roma, lost control of a red Chevrolet truck about 3 a.m. and…
FALFURRIAS — Officials seized about 4,700 pounds of marijuana early Saturday morning at the U.S. Border Patrol’s Falfurrias checkpoint.
An official with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said the drugs were hidden among crates of broccoli…
EDINBURG — The U.S. Border Patrol was an agency in flux when Ronald Vitiello arrived in the Rio Grande Valley three years ago as the agency’s newly appointed sector chief.
The policies of President George W. Bush’s administration and a rising…
Texas’ 13th Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a Donna man accused in a 2004 stabbing at South Padre Island that left another Rio Grande Valley man dead.
The appellate court on Thursday let stand the 77-year prison sentence that a state…
SAN JUAN — More than 300 health care professionals who assist and educate low-income families in South Texas now have a place to call home.
South Texas Promotoras Association Inc. celebrated the grand opening of its first headquarters Tuesday…
EDINBURG — Constructing more than 30 miles of sidewalks, redesigning crosswalks and installing bike racks at two dozen school campuses can aid the Edinburg school district’s efforts to curb childhood obesity, school officials said.
The $9 million…
Several national security and U.S.-Mexico border experts criticized current U.S. border policy this past week, saying it inadequately deters drug trafficking from Mexico and pushes would-be immigrants into the arms of criminal organizations
In a…
McALLEN — A man was gunned down about 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the Northcross Shopping Center at the intersection of North 10th Street and Nolana.
McAllen police officials apprehended four suspects as they were trying to cross into Mexico just…